THE SMART TRICK OF PERSUASION THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Anne Elliot is twenty-7 and unmarried—by all accounts a spinster in her time—seemingly doomed to spend the remainder of her life waiting around on her impression-obsessed father and extravagant more mature sister; trying to manage their once lavish, now dwindling relatives estate; and infrequently babysitting the kids of her married youthful si